In fact, the weather on the plains of Ukraine has become a little cold, especially for the troops stationed in the field, and it is very difficult to bear it at night, after all, the weather in Ukraine is very different from the warm Europe.

Both sides are preparing the necessary military supplies for winter operations, cotton tents, soldiers' gun antifreeze protective covers and antifreeze, almost everything that can be prepared, and both sides are doing their best to make the final reserves.

Accardo prepared antifreeze suits in white snow camouflage fabric for the entire Eastern Front's 5.3 million troops, and these short trench coats with hooded antifreeze suits and even most of the pre-processed styles also had two small pockets on both sides that were convenient for stuffing, and the workmanship can be said to be very sophisticated.

The attentive German rear even provided a full 4 white gun camouflage sets, covering the German MP-44 assault rifle, the G43 semi-automatic rifle, the Mauser 98K bolt rifle and the MG42 general-purpose machine gun. In this way, the German army will be camouflaged in the snow to a higher level than it has been many times in history.

This time Germany came prepared, in order to stock up on cotton clothes for winter in advance, Accardo began to build the German military's breeding base as early as 1925, which not only helped the German military hide a large number of management talents and troops under the constraints of the "Versailles Treaty", but also provided Germany with a large amount of duck meat in the production process.

Because of the large number of down products in reserve, there was even a period of time when German duck meat products were exported to 13 surrounding countries and regions, which once allowed the French people at that time to enjoy the consumption experience brought by cheap duck meat and goose meat. Germany, on the other hand, took advantage of this large-scale farming to secretly reserve inferior down jackets mixed with chicken feathers. Then these inferior down jackets were used in 1937 and 1938 to achieve a warm supply for the rear workers.

In addition, the German occupation of France and the Netherlands acquired a large number of pastures, which strengthened the production capacity of the country's animal husbandry and textile industries, making Germany very rich in the production capacity of civilian warm materials.

The high-quality down jackets and padded clothing produced during this period, as well as a large number of sweater products, were transported to the front line by the Germans to supply the military, so that the German soldiers could get enough winter clothes in advance when the weather turned cold. Compared with another time and space, the German army is now very well prepared for winter, and even to the point of stockpiling some spare supplies.

On the other hand, the German armored forces are more professional and systematic in preparing for winter, and in the course of up to two months, using Kiev and Warsaw and other front-line factory areas, the German tanks have thickened the front armor at the same time, and have also installed a device that can heat the engine, at least at 35 degrees under the order, this device can effectively increase the engine heat for completely cooled tanks and armored vehicles, and increase the engine heat to reach the normal starting temperature.

In addition, with the gradual increase in the production capacity of the Romanian oil fields, the German army's oil supply on the Eastern Front was very timely and sufficient, and the German army's original oil reserves were more than that of another time and space, so the quality and quantity of oil of the German troops have been significantly improved, and compared with the number of German oil reserves in another time and space that Accardo is familiar with, the German army's oil weight is still 1.3 million barrels more than in the same period. This is already a very good result, because the German army now drinks more oil than Germany in the same period.

With this capital, the German company Farben provided enough antifreeze to keep Germany's proud armored vehicles in very good condition for the coming winter. In this way, Germany can be said to have made all the preparations needed to prevent the vehicle from being frozen and completely unusable.

Not only the fuel is burned, but the German armored vehicles have also made their own preparations in other preparations, such as the track width of the German tank is more than twice as wide as that of the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, and the new track allows the Leopard tank and the Tiger tank to obtain a better pass rate in the mud, and is also more suitable for snow and complex road conditions, which also makes the German armored forces more confident to attack forward in winter.

At the same time, a full 1 million tons of charcoal and firewood from the German army were prepared, which would be used as the troops moved forward to ensure that the troops could light fires to heat their homes or heat their vehicles in the field. The timber was taken from the forests of Poland and Germany, and in order to prepare for these supplies, the forest land in Poland was reduced by one piece at a rate visible to the naked eye. Originally, with the level of preparation of the German army, there was no need for raw materials such as wood, but the German army still prepared a huge quantity, and even some of them were dried, so it can be said that there was no waste of even a little help.

The stockpiles of these supplies supported 13,100 tanks of various types, 7,100 armored vehicles and self-propelled guns, as well as 390,000 cars and motorcycles of various models, and 11,300 large-caliber support towed guns. The 5.3 million soldiers were ready for battle, and if you add the 300,000 Romanian troops, 200,000 Finnish troops, 700,000 Italian troops, and 500,000 Turkish follow-up troops, the total ground strength of the German army on the Eastern Front exceeded 7 million, which can be said to be a strong army.

In four months, the Luftwaffe, with the help of engineers and prisoners of war, built antifreeze shelters for a full 20,000 aircraft on the Eastern Front, which allowed all German planes from Poland to Ukraine to be placed in their houses when the temperature dropped and the ice and snow were all over the place - this project even Accardo found incredible, and the German military top brass actually did not miss any idea between stupid methods and good strategies.

In addition, the Germans also prepared protective tents for aircraft and cut wooden plank skeletons, which were used to quickly establish front-line field airfields when the Germans advanced to Minsk and later Smolensk and other areas. Further afield, the German army did not make much preparations, only a follow-up support plan, after all, according to the time of the operation, it was expected that by the time the attack reached the vicinity of Moscow, it was already spring and summer.

Because of the intelligence, Germany still adopted a defensive posture, nearly 6 million troops were waiting for the early attack of the Soviet Red Army, although they did not prepare a battlement defense system like in Poland, but they prepared a large depth defense system in the front line, especially with the two flanks of Kiev as the core.

Similarly, the Soviet Red Army, under the leadership of Zhukov, was preparing for a winter offensive, and compared with the German army, which was experienced in fighting in Europe, the Soviet Red Army had very rich combat experience in cold Russia. Nothing else, just look at the number of cotton clothes that the Soviet Union has on hand, and you can see that they are simply familiar with winter warfare.

After the onset of winter, when snow was often accompanied by mud and cold, the Soviet Red Army, which relied heavily on livestock mobility, had the best time to fight on its own. The Cossack cavalry on horseback would make a wide-ranging detour in cold weather a nightmare for the shivering enemy infantry, and the Soviets' greater resistance to the cold made them more adapted to attack in cold climates.

Compared with the German troops, the total strength of the Soviet Red Army has a clear advantage, they have prepared 9.1 million soldiers in three echelons on the Eastern Front, although most of these soldiers are not the elite of the Soviet Red Army when Poland began to attack, but they still maintain more than one month of combat training, and have a fairly good basic combat capability.

After a two-month delay, the strategic materials provided by the United States to the Soviet Union were also transported from the distant Bering Strait to the foot of the Ural Mountains.

In order to counter the performance advantage of the German armored forces in aiming optical sighting, the Soviet Union also deliberately ordered a full 500 sets of original imported M4 Sherman sighting systems from the United States, which were adjusted and installed on the Stalin-type tank, so as to improve the accuracy of its firepower and give it the ability to fight against the main German tanks such as the Tiger Leopard.

In two months, the Soviet military enterprises worked overtime to supply the Soviet Red Army at the front with more than 2,000 T-34 tanks, so that the Soviet Red Army still had a certain quantitative advantage over Germany in tanks - of course, only God knows how big the gap is in terms of quality.

In order to increase production, the T-34 tank has a new, more rounded cast turret, which is one-piece and has a very good bulletproof appearance, which can be said to be a significant improvement over the original KV-1 tank. After this tank was delivered to the troops, the soldiers of the armored forces were very fond of it, and at least when it came to replacing the T-26 in their hands, they were very happy.

But this is only the paper data of the tank's performance provided by Soviet engineers, and no one knows how much protection the T-34 tank with this new turret will have in real life. After all, in the extreme case of workers working overtime day and night, producing 35 pieces a day, how many bubbles and impurities are inside the steel body of the one-piece cast turret is not something that the person who produced it can subjectively control.

Of course, in fact, there are still some high-quality tanks produced in the Soviet Union, for example, at least 50 Stalin tanks are almost completed by manual workers, and the quality can be said to be guaranteed, most of these tanks are scattered with other mass-produced Stalin tanks in the Soviet armored forces, and the German tanks are dealt a fatal blow with cold arrows.

In the next two months, more than 170 production versions of the Stalin tank were produced, and the handmade version finally fulfilled Stalin's requirements for the production of this tank. As a result, the Soviet Union will have more than 220 Stalin tanks, more than 2,300 T-34 tanks, almost 100 KV-2 tanks, more than 5,100 KV-1 tanks, more than 5,500 T-26 tanks, and 400 M3 and M3lee tanks aided by the United States.